- Disclaimer -
This is a writeup of my experience. It is not a “HOW-TO” guide. If you choose to apply the contents of this post, you do so at your own risk.
- Preamble -
Back in Step 1 - Remove Ubuntu partitions, I managed to successfully delete the Ubuntu partitions. Unfortunately, the Recovery partition lay in-between my C-drive and the new unallocated space. This prevented me from being able to add the space to the C-drive using Disk Management.
- Disclaimer -
This is a writeup of my experience. It is not a “HOW-TO” guide. If you choose to apply the contents of this post, you do so at your own risk.
- Step 3 - Murphy -
More likely than not, something will go wrong. What goes wrong varies widely, and likewise how to resolve it. What follows is what failed in my case, and how I got around it.
- Disclaimer -
This is a writeup of my experience. It is not a “HOW-TO” guide. If you choose to apply the contents of this post, you do so at your own risk.
- Why -
I had previously configured my computer to host two operating systems: Windows 10 and Ubuntu (Linux). However, the dual boot setup is inconvenient. Only one operating system can run at a given time. To use the other, you have to restart the computer and boot into it. As such, I almost never use my Ubuntu OS. It’s just sitting there taking up valuable disk space.
- Overview -
The standard procedure to remove a Dual Boot setup (at the time of writing) seems to be this:
This was a double team with my brother.
We had a laptop that did not boot and was outside its warranty. After exhaustively checking possible fail points, we narrowed down the likely culprit to a BIOS failure.
Inspired by this Hackaday post, we decided to use an Arduino to flash the chip. The laptop was going to be scrapped otherwise, so we figured we might as well go all out.
